POSSIBLE WAY OUT OF THE HAWKING PARADOX: ERASING THE INFORMATION AT THE HORIZON

We show that small deviations from spherical symmetry, described by means of exact solutions to Einstein equations, provide a mechanism to bleach the information about the collapsing body as it falls through the apparent horizon, thereby resolving the information loss paradox. The resulting picture and its implication related to Landauer's principle in the presence of a gravitational field is discussed.